Kinderhook Creek

Template:Geobox Kinderhook Creek is a tributary to the Stockport Creek. From its source in Hancock, Massachusetts the creek runs southwest through the Taconic Mountains in Rensselaer County and into Columbia County. It flows through the towns of It's mouth is at the Stockport Creek in the town of Stockport, New York.

The Kinderhook Creek has a drainage area of over 329 square miles.

History

Prior to 1667 Known as "Major Abram's (Staats) Kill" And "Third Falls." in 1823 Called Stuyvesant Falls And After 1845 "Kinderhook Creek". The name Kinderhook has its root in the landing of Henry Hudson in the area around Stuyvesant, New York, and where he was greeted by Native Americans and many children. So Kinder, meaning Child, and Hoeck meaning bend or hook [in the River]. So the name literally means "bend in the river where the children are". The areas around Kinderhook Creek were called Machackoesk by the Native American Mahican Tribe.

Tributaries

• Valatie Kill - Native American, Tsat-sa-was-sa or Tack-a-was-ick creek (and lake) are placed in the town of Nassau by the French. The name may refer to a stone mortar.
• Kline Kill - Native American Mahican name Scom-pa-muck or Squampanoc.
  • Indian Creek
  • Punsit Creek
• Stony Kill
  • Frisbee Creek
  • Queechy Lake Brook - Native American Mahican name Quis-sich-kook, unknown meaning.
• Green Brook
• Tackawasick Creek
  • Cranberry Vly
• Black Brook
  • Huff Brook
• Hollow Brook
• Wyomanock Creek - Native American name for the creek. Also known as Lebanon Creek.
  • South Branch Wyomanock Creek
  • Berry Pond Creek
    • Red Oak Brook
• Taplin Bourn (From Middle English bourne, a brook)
• Black River
• Roaring Brook
• East Brook
  • West Brook
• Bentley Brook
• Whitman Brook
• Jones Brook
• Rathburn Brook

See also

Kinderhook, New York